Science & Society

Optimism The Best Weapon Against Climate Change Denial

In order to get the public more involved in the climate change issue, scientists and activists have to move away from fear-laden imagery of drowning polar bears and flooded cities, according to new research published in Meteorological Applications. The pap ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2010 - 12:31pm

Anti-Science Debunking Conservatives And Progressives Agree On (And Some They Don't)

Conservatives have long lamented the politicization of science.  And why wouldn't they?  Scientists as a bloc haven't voted Republican in decades and when Republicans limit science, there is an outcry (and even whole books!) but when a Democrat l ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 27 2010 - 3:16pm

60 Years Of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: A Chronological Curriculum Of The Ultimate Catastrophe

What does the Neanderthal genome have to with post-apocalyptic science fiction? It may seem like odd inspiration, but Neanderthals have aroused my interest in one of the most venerable genres of science fiction. Last summer I was awaiting the release of Th ...

Article - Michael White - Nov 12 2010 - 3:39pm

Love Thine Enemy

Love Thine Enemy It is exceedingly rare that the scientist and the believer can stand on the same platform and present the same message to the world in the form of a law of universal application.  What is scientific, you may ask, about an injunction to lo ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 30 2010 - 2:39pm

Science Quotes

"No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer."  Thomas Browne (1605-1682) "There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contr ...

Article - Camillo Di Cicco - Aug 19 2017 - 10:41am

Scientific Blogging: Official Blog Of The "Rise Of The Citizen-Scientist" H+ Summit

"The Year Of (insert your favorite cause here)" is usually driven by marketing departments and often to correspond to some sort of milestone.   2009 was "The Year of..." both Galileo and Darwin, for example, though no one seemed to find ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 1 2010 - 7:12pm

Vote For Scientific Blogging At 3 Quarks Daily For The 2010 3QD Prize In Science

3 Quarks Daily is a 'filter blog' that compiles stuff from around the web on a daily basis, in science, design, literature, current affairs, art, and anything else they deem inherently fascinating. They say the name derives from that moment in 1 ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 2 2010 - 3:46pm

Moncktonian Climatology

Moncktonian Climatology Christopher Monckton presents himself as an expert on climate. Since he is an expert on climate, it follows that we should all trust and believe him when he says that there is no problem with the Arctic sea ice. "Arctic ice ex ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 3 2010 - 9:39am

Democracy is not a way to resolve technical questions

In the latest issue of Science, one of the outstanding contemporary philosophers of science, Philip Kitcher, in a review of books on global warming, offers this excellent bit of wisdom on science and democracy: ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jun 3 2010 - 2:54pm

Science 2.0- Darwinian Selection Of The Best Paper

Science 2.0 is Openness and transparency.  Those buzz words mean open* access to both reading and publishing and sharing ones opinion on what is published.  Transparency means a process where any editorial decisions that are made are based on known written ...

Article - Hontas Farmer - Jun 5 2010 - 8:39pm